Questions and Answers: Crawley Down Lease Extensions

  • I have just bought a three bed conversion flat located inCrawley Down and I'm considering a lease extension as soon as possible e.g. in 24 months of ownership
  • I invested in buying a flat in Crawley Down with a leasehold unexpired about 69 years and need to extend it. Please can you clarify the next steps
  • I have contacted my freeholder to extend my lease for my flat in Crawley Down. Her has been in contact concerning charges etc. I need a ball park figure for dealing with the legalities to secure a lease extension. The flat currently has a 99 YR lease which started January 199.
  • Regarding a property in Crawley Down. lower maisonette. sixety four yrs unexpired. I have an agreed lease extension to £20k for 125yrs. Freeholder also insisted on Notice of Claim which I think should not be required. Can you assist.
  • My wife and I are considering buying a maisonette in Crawley Down which is a leasehold. I am wanting to weigh up the pros and cons of that - what happens when lease expires, how much it costs to extend it, can the freeholder of the property evict me from my own flat and block me from having a lease extension?
  • Even though I may not need a lease extension but I do need a vesting order on a property I want to purchase in Crawley Down. The house is freehold but the garden is officially leasehold, 995 year lease from 1854. Its the garden area.
  • If a leaseholder owns a flat with a lease of under 80 years, they can afford the lease extension by borrowing the funds against the property, and the value of the flat with the new lease will more than cover the cost of the extension, then is there any justification for not extending the lease?
  • I am planning on remortgaging my ground floor flat in Crawley Down and the bank that I am looking to switch to requires a minimum 85 years on the leasehold of my property in order for them to take the mortgage forward. We currently have around fivety five years on the leasehold so looking for some advice, guidance, and some quotes to start the lease extension process
  • We currently own a one bedroom apartment in Crawley Down and are looking to sell it this year so we can carry out some improvements on our family home. I checked the lease and it has sixety six years left. Not sure what to do, have read some bits on the web saying it will be 13k plus to get a lease extension. Do you have some advice on this? Do I contact the landlord first and will they be able to give me a cost?
  • I'm looking for some advice with regard to a lease extension on my studio flat in Crawley Down. I'll be looking to do this sometime next year as we need to move at some point then. Unfortunately the current lease is now very short and therefore I'm guessing it'll be expensive to extend. I'm also thinking that I'll probably have to go down the tribunal route. Can you recommend a good who specialises in lease extensions?

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